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Pre-commitment is powerful, or why you should be like Odysseus.

Most of the time, we wield willpower like a holstered gun with the safety off.

Temptation rears, an ice cream bar perhaps, and we whip it out, firing blindly,

and wasting more than a few bullets in the process. The temptation is beat back and the ice cream goes

uneaten, but the willpower that remains is depleted and less effective in subsequent encounters. And the same thing happens

every time we're faced with the decision. That's a sloppy way of dealing with the

constant stream of temptation that the modern world presents. Consider how Odysseus handled

the ultimate temptation in Greek mythology. As legend has it,

any man who sailed past the island of Anthromesa would be drawn toward and broken upon the rocks

lining its shores by the irresistible song of the sirens who resided there. No man could resist, and so Odysseus plugged his men's ears with beeswax,

and tied himself to the mast with strict orders that no matter what he said and how much he pleaded,

he was not to be untied.

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